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Artist & Poet
About Tuli Kumar
In 2017, Tuli Kumar stapled a 42-page chapbook, hand-set type, charcoal-smeared margins, ink smudged from subway platform drafts, to the bulletin board of City Lights’ back room and vanished for three months, returning with a series of oil-on-burlap portraits titled 'Breath Stops at Third Avenue.' His work refuses digital reproduction: every poem is drafted on found paper, train tickets, pharmacy receipts, torn library checkout slips, and each visual piece embeds erased lines of verse beneath layers of translucent gesso. Unlike his Beat predecessors, Kumar rejects autobiographical confession in favor of what he calls 'witnessed anonymity', writing from the vantage of the barista, the bus driver, the woman folding laundry at 4 a.m., never naming them but rendering their rhythms in fractured iambic pulses and off-kilter brushstrokes. He co-founded the Midnight Press Collective in Oakland, which publishes only analog-only editions, requiring readers to transcribe poems by hand before they’re archived.
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- “How did riding the 22 Fillmore bus shape your poem 'Static Between Stops'?”
- “Why do you erase half the text before sealing each chapbook in wax?”
- “What’s the story behind the burnt matchstick embedded in 'Ode to a Payphone'?”
- “Which three objects from a laundromat inspired your latest triptych?”